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...legendary, maverick big-league owner who once sent a midget to bat. The St. Paul Saints, owned by Veeck's son Mike, gave out inflatable bats, sponsored by the maker of Viagra, to every man over 21. In Nashville, Tenn., 15 nuns opened a game with the national anthem and came back during the 7th-inning stretch to perform the Macarena...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Minor Miracles | 8/12/2002 | See Source »

Woody Guthrie sang about Lewis and Clark country. Instead of his usual hobo's plainsong, Guthrie broke into an anthem that might have been written by the National Association of Manufacturers: "Roll on, Columbia, roll on/Roll on, Columbia, roll on/Your power is turning our darkness to dawn/So roll on, Columbia, roll on." Guthrie ardently wired up the dawn of Manifest Destiny to hydroelectric power: "Tom Jefferson's vision would not let him rest/An empire he saw in the Pacific Northwest/Sent Lewis and Clark and they did the rest/So roll on, Columbia, roll on." The beautiful, wild river made Guthrie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Land Is Whose Land? | 7/8/2002 | See Source »

Suddenly patriotic? Are you one of those who just last summer was too shy to sing the national anthem at baseball games and this year is celebrating the Fourth of July by dyeing your hair red, white and blue? Feel a little iffy, though, on the details? Can't tell the Sons of Liberty from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Patriotism for Dummies | 7/3/2002 | See Source »

...Duran in concert, a course in auto repair or a daily exercise regimen. With the help of a video camera, it can capture special family moments for an instant home movie or create a "video postcard" for far-off relatives. The VCR's contagious tune is, in short, the anthem of an entertainment revolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 18 Years Ago In TIME | 7/1/2002 | See Source »

While typical warehouse raves of the anthem-party scale are few and far between around here, and usually far out (think: must have car), Boston has a secret: Beantown is home to one of the best drum ’n’ bass scenes in America. Great, you say—what the hell does that mean? Here’s how to be rolling downtown like a pro junglist soldier in no time...

Author: By Tina Rivers, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Drum 'n' Bass 'n' Harvard | 4/5/2002 | See Source »

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